Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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